Bill McNeal wrote:Heyward has a $23m luxury tax hit through the 2023 season and has posted ops+ figures of 68, 84, 94, 98 over the last 4 seasons. If you are adding Bryant at $19m you are adding $42m in payroll for just 2020. No way does that make any kind of sense.

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:Heyward has a $23m luxury tax hit through the 2023 season and has posted ops+ figures of 68, 84, 94, 98 over the last 4 seasons. If you are adding Bryant at $19m you are adding $42m in payroll for just 2020. No way does that make any kind of sense.

It makes sense if you don’t have to trade anything of value. It’s just money.

mcare89 wrote:

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:Heyward has a $23m luxury tax hit through the 2023 season and has posted ops+ figures of 68, 84, 94, 98 over the last 4 seasons. If you are adding Bryant at $19m you are adding $42m in payroll for just 2020. No way does that make any kind of sense.

It makes sense if you don’t have to trade anything of value. It’s just money.

If you essentially have to pay $40 million a year for Kris Bryant for the two years where you're actually getting Kris Bryant at good value, aren't you better off just signing Rendon instead?

TempleFan22 wrote:Olney thinks even after signing Didi that the Phillies make a ton of sense as a trade partner for Bryant.

phorever wrote:i'm glad fangraphs hasn't been winning season prediction games lately like they were a couple of year ago, 'cause right now they have the phils at about 83.5 wins, but still 8 games behind the mets, 5.5 behind the nats, and five behind the braves.
gonna need a trade at least as successful as the jtr move of last year to close that gap.
at least we know that klentakis capable of such trades... fingers crossed...

LongDrive wrote:Is Desi Relaford available?

Squire wrote:Just wanted to post that the additions of Zach Wheeler, Didi Gregorius, Joe Girardi and Bryan Price *are* enough to get me pretty excited about the start of Phillies baseball.

LongDrive wrote:Is Desi Relaford available?

Eighteen years after playing in Philadelphia, former Phillie Desi Relaford called Philly fans “trash.”

Relaford spent 11 seasons in Major League Baseball, the first five with the Phils. He was a career .243 hitter.

“The fans, they were trash,” Relaford told The Jake Brown Show podcast. “I have some really good friends there, but as fans? Oh yeah, the worst…Not only are they hard, but they’re just irrational. They boo just to boo.

“Getting booed before they even announce my name, ‘Now batting, your shortstop, booo!‘ I get it, I was scuffling. I’m not saying you can’t get booed or fans shouldn’t boo. Yeah, if a player deserves to get booed, boo his a**, give it to him. But there’s a time and place and it shouldn’t just be for any and everything, and especially your home team. I can understand booing your home team, but things should be really, really bad before that happens.”